Ruby::AZ - Dec 18th

In the spirit of the season, Time would do his part for Peace on Earth and give a 15 to 30-minute presentation on using Vi emulation in Emacs. (This is where he spends at least 12 hours of every day of his life, so he has it down to a science.) He'll briefly present what he considers the benefits of Emacs (especially for multiple-language development), with some overview of its capabilities for Ruby development.

Paul Mooring on Hosting Rails and Rack Applications

Paul will share his wisdom as a DevOps guy on the sometimes intricate world of hosting a Ruby on Rails application or any Rack-based application.

Tim Crews

Tim Crews (@code_affinity) is a polyglot programmer who only ever met three programming languages that he didn't like. He has been writing software professionally for 25 years, mostly in languages brought to you by the letter "C". He recently made the jump to self-employment, seeking opportunities to write code in expressive high-level languages such as Ruby, Python, Haskell, Clojure, and Scala. Besides his life-long obsession with programming, Tim is an avid student of the history and philosophy of science and mathematics. See his fledgling web-site at http://www.code-affinity.com

Paul Mooring

Paul Mooring (@paulmooring) is a Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate at Opscode, Inc. He has 5 years experience as a Systems Administrator/Engineer using Ruby for automation.